convict
Noun · VerbWordNet 3.0
Noun (2)
Verb (1)
- find or declare guilty“The man was convicted of fraud and sentenced”
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
Convict \Con*vict"\ (k[o^]n*v[i^]kt"), p. a. [L. convictus, p. p. of convincere to convict, prove. See Convice.] Proved or found guilty; convicted. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Convict by flight, and rebel to all law. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
Convict \Con"vict\ (k[o^]n"v[i^]kt), n.
1.A person proved guilty of a crime alleged against him; one legally convicted or sentenced to punishment for some crime. [1913 Webster]
2.A criminal sentenced to penal servitude.
Syn: Malefactor; culprit; felon; criminal. [1913 Webster]
Convict \Con*vict"\ (k[o^]n*v[i^]kt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Convicted; p. pr. & vb. n. Convicting.]
1.To prove or find guilty of an offense or crime charged; to pronounce guilty, as by legal decision, or by one's conscience. [1913 Webster]
He [Baxter] . . . had been convicted by a jury.— Macaulay.[1913 Webster]
They which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one.— John viii. 9.[1913 Webster]
2.To prove or show to be false; to confute; to refute. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster]
3.To demonstrate by proof or evidence; to prove. [1913 Webster]
Imagining that these proofs will convict a testament, to have that in it which other men can nowhere by reading find.— Hooker.[1913 Webster]
4.To defeat; to doom to destruction. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
A whole armado of convicted sail.— Shak.
Syn: To confute; defect; convince; confound. [1913 Webster]